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Truth is ‘Payment System Plus Apple/Android’

The answer to an age-old philosophical question: What is truth?

Tucker Lieberman
3 min readNov 7, 2022
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Everyone talks about truth. We all want to know we’re making true statements. Or, at least, we want others to believe we are.

Here Are a Handful of Elon Musk’s Tweets about Truth

Beware advertisers “dressed as truth tellers.”

Is physics “the search for truth”? Maybe! Or maybe it’s the quest for the definition of truth. I wouldn’t know.

Hey: “If Twitter was not truthful here, what else is not true?” OMG. Think about. If Twitter is lying, maybe physics isn’t true.

Whatever is already coming true may as well be “a documentary.”

But the media, you know, doesn’t seek truth. It seeks clicks.

“Is it really true that…” Well, is it? If I make a sensationalized, barely credible statement about small children for purposes of transphobic fearmongering, does the statement become true because I said it on Twitter?

Of course it does, and so Twitter is “becom[ing] by far the most reliable source of truth.”

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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